Original and replica cabs for Boston & Maine 3713 meet at Steamtown on Aug. 30, 2018. Steamtown NPS SCRANTON, Pa. — After more than two decades of false starts and delays, the restoration of Boston & Maine 4-6-2 No. 3713 at Steamtown National Historic Site has picked up speed and this week reached two major […]
An inbound Metra train pushed by F40PHM-2 No. 212 smokes away from the Naperville, Ill., station while Amtrak’s Illinois Zephyr prepares to depart behind a new Siemens Charger locomotive. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — While Illinois plans for spending money from the Volkswagen legal settlement have changed, Metra’s locomotive fleet will still benefit. The original […]
Quincy & Torch Lake No. 6 after restoration in Michigan. Q&TL Facebook page HANCOCK, Mich. — An elderly narrow gauge locomotive last operated just after World War II has been cosmetically restored by volunteers. No. 6 of the Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad, a 1912 Baldwin outside frame 2-8-0, ran on the six-mile railroad hauling […]
FULL SCREEN Ed Lichtenfels via the Colorado Railroad Museum The Rio Grande tunnel motor is spending in air at the Colorado Railroad Museum. FULL SCREEN Ed Lichtenfels via the Colorado Railroad Museum Crews maneuver the locomotive into its final position at the Colorado Railroad Museum. FULL SCREEN Jim Barton via the Colorado Railroad Museum Crews […]
With a BNSF Railway unit in the lead, a Mexico-bound empty auto rack train pulls into Robstown, Texas, on Kansas City Southern tracks in November 2017. Bill Stephens The trade deal reached by the U.S. and Mexico this week — which The Wall Street Journal dubbed “half a NAFTA” — may be positive for railroads […]
No. 2 before restoration. Boothbay Railway Village BOOTHBAY, Maine – A steam locomotive from one of Maine’s most obscure two-foot gauge railroads is making its public debut after an extensive restoration. Boothbay Railway Village’s S.D. Warren 0-4-0T No. 2 will be under steam on Sept. 8 for a day-long celebration marking the completion of its […]
Kaliningrad, Russia Google Maps KALININGRAD, Russia — A 16-year-old boy is fighting for his life after climbing atop a railroad bridge and grabbing on to an electrified catenary wire. A U.K. website reports that the teenager climbed on to the railroad bridge in western Russia and grabbed the catenary and pretended to be shocked. A […]
SPENCER, N.C. — The North Carolina Transportation Museum has restored Southern Railway No. 550555 to its original commemorative paint scheme. In 1970, the 50-foot cushioned boxcar was the 200,000th freight car built by Pullman-Standard at their Bessemer, Ala., plant. The factory opened in 1929. Southern Railway president W. Graham Claytor Jr. and Pullman-Standard president George […]
This “Trackside with Trains” photo contest result comes from August 2018. The theme was “Stations.” Trackside with Trackside was a regular, periodic contest among Trains website visitors from the earlier 2000s until October 2018. Anyone in the world who wanted to participate, could, and with rare exception, have their images judged by viewers with […]
A Southwest Chief inspection special pauses at Garden City, Kan., on July 11, 2014, to pick up city officials. Bob Johnston RATON, N.M. — Amtrak will not operate passenger trains on lines without positive train control after Dec. 31, 2018, a top official for the passenger railroad says — a decision which could lead to […]
A train for Silverton departs Durango in June 2015. Brian Schmidt DURANGO, Colo. – Ridership on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is down 27 percent this year due to shutdowns related to wildfires and mudslides, the Durango Herald reports. Since June, the railroad has had 54,000 cancellations as a result of a wildfire […]
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are refusing at this time to step in and resolve a disagreement between Metra and Amtrak over use of Chicago Union Station, but are keeping the door open to intervene should Metra raise valid objections in the future. In a five-page decision released by the Surface Transportation Board on Aug. 22, […]
